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Home > Our Region > What To Explore > Theatre and Performing Arts

Buffalo Niagara Works...

                 for Lovers of the Theatre and the Performing Arts

 

Already home to fourteen professional theaters, Buffalo's reputation as an emerging national center for the arts continues to grow.

You'll find Broadway musicals at Shea's Performing Arts Center, a European-style opera house of real grandeur in the heart of the city's downtown; comedies, dramas and mysteries at Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo's nationally-recognized producing theatre; the greatest works of dramatic literature at the Irish Classical Theatre Company; pieces by African-Americans and people of color at Ujima Theatre; work by up-and-coming and undiscovered playwrights at the Alleyway Theatre; an eclectic menu of musicals, comedies and drama at the lovely and intimate Kavinoky Theatre on the campus of D'Youville College; and entertainment for young audiences at Theatre of Youth in the beautifully-restored Allendale Theatre in historic Allentown.

 
In summertime, Shakespeare in Delaware Park is the second largest outdoor Shakespeare festival in the country. Nestled in the natural amphitheater that has come to be known as "Shakespeare Hill," a grand Tudor-style stage is constructed each summer as the home for Shakespeare's stories of passion, laughter and love. 

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society are both at home in the acoustic and architectural perfection of the internationally acclaimed Kleinhans Music Hall. The BPO's summer home at Artpark in nearby Lewiston overlooks the magnificent Niagara Gorge, where a series of shows - from Broadway to bluegrass and the blues - is held between June and September.
 

HSBC Arena on the city's waterfront regularly reverberates when the monsters of rock come to town. And the University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts in suburban Amherst also hosts a full schedule of concerts, dance performances and lectures.

You'll find jazz at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery as part of its Microsoft Jazz Series; concerts at the Town Ballroom downtown; and experimental and avant-garde music at Soundlab. There's roots rock, blues and jazz at Nietzsche's and the Allen Street Hardware Café in Allentown, country at the Sportsmen's Tavern on the city's West Side, alternative rock at Mohawk Place downtown and Buffalo's very own soul legend, Lance Diamond, at the Elmwood Lounge.
Come see - and hear - what you've been missing.

For additional information on the Buffalo Niagara region's many architectural, cultural, historic and natural attractions, contact the Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau at 1-800-BUFFALO of  visit www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/